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This DIY Lockpicker Has AI on Its Side - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/this-diy-lockpicker-has-ai-on-its-side-7264ccf5dccf

AI
ESP32

Dr. Kun Dániel built a DIY lockpicking robot using an ESP32, 3D-printed parts, and Claude to autonomously open pin tumbler locks.

AI model gets a 32-bit RISC-V CPU compiled directly into its weights, then runs DOOM on it — experimental AI model can run Doom and C code using its own weights as RAM | Tom's Hardwarehttps://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-engineer-successfully-compiles-a-32-bit-risc-v-cpu-in-qwen-3-5-4b-llm-inserted-directly-into-its-weights-built-in-cpu-can-run-processor-arithmetic-operations-code-and-of-course-doom

AI

Project takes a stock Qwen 3.5 4B and compiles a RISC-V CPU into its weights.

AI Has Officially Come for the Candle - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/ai-has-officially-come-for-the-candle-0015f7f2812f

led

Digital Candle uses a tiny neural network and 144 LEDs to recreate the mesmerizing flicker of a real flame without the fire.

Is This The Only Instrument You Need? | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/is-this-the-only-instrument-you-need/

When working on an electronic project it’s likely you will find yourself working with a variety of different instruments, be they logic analysers, oscilloscopes, or whatever. These can take u…

Hacking The Modern Tamagotchi With UART | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/28/hacking-the-modern-tamagotchi-with-uart/

hack

Although not technically the first virtual pet, the Tamagotchi handhelds certainly popularized the idea and made it a worldwide phenomenon. In the late 90s it was hard to go out in public and not s…

Magnetic Lock Opens By Magic | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/29/magnetic-lock-opens-by-magic/

lock

Over on IEEE Spectrum, [Stephen Cass] has a project that would probably have seemed like a magic a few centuries ago. Imagine a box that uses a magnetic device to holds a locking bolt, requiring a …

The Fascinating World Of IrDA And Other Infrared Protocols | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/26/the-fascinating-world-of-irda-and-other-infrared-protocols/

Infrared (IR) communication technologies are probably one of the most influential, yet also one of the least flashiest. The fact that IR communication tends to be highly directional and often limit…

elipsitz/gamebub: Open-source FPGA retro emulation handheldhttps://github.com/elipsitz/gamebub

Electronics hobbyist converts $120 DDR5 SODIMM kit into ‘$1000’ desktop kit to fight RAM crisis — ICs from SK hynix DDR5-5600 16GB modules used to create DDR5-7800 desktop sticks | Tom's Hardwarehttps://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ddr5/electronics-hobbyist-converts-usd120-ddr5-sodimm-kit-into-usd1000-desktop-kit-to-fight-ram-crisis-ics-from-sk-hynix-ddr5-5600-16gb-modules-used-to-create-ddr5-7800-desktop-sticks

ddr

You have to be lucky to find such cheap DDR5 SODIMMs, and specialist equipment and skills are required for success.

Rendering 3D Prints From G-Code | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/14/rendering-3d-prints-from-g-code/

3dprint

Your CAD software generally has some rudimentary tools for rending images of your parts, from simply-textured models to more photo-realistic options. However, those renders are of the geometry you …

DIY Force Sensing Joysticks Are A Cheap Way To Go | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/14/diy-force-sensing-joysticks-are-a-cheap-way-to-go/

Traditional joysticks typically use potentiometers or hall effect sensors to determine the displacement of the stick itself when moved by the operator. Force-sensing joysticks are considered more d…

Emulating A Floppy Drive By Emulating The Drive Itself | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/12/emulating-a-floppy-drive-by-emulating-the-drive-itself/

Floppy

The Commodore 1541 is famously the floppy drive for the Commodore 64 series of 8-bit computers, and can be found with relative ease. Not so well known is its 1551 sibling — the drive made for…

Using Kirigami Techniques To Make Functional Designs | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/12/using-kirigami-techniques-to-make-functional-designs/

The variant of origami called kirigami (‘cut paper’ in Japanese) also starts off with a sheet of paper, but it allows for cutting the paper to increase the number of shapes that you can…

Valve Releases Hardware And CAD Reference For New VR Headset | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/10/valve-releases-hardware-and-cad-reference-for-new-vr-headset/

Valve recently began shipping its long-awaited VR headset, the Steam Frame. Now, there is a hardware reference repository that includes everything a budding modder might need, and then some. Want t…

Turning A Run-Over Samsung Galaxy S23 Into A Gaming PC | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/08/turning-a-run-over-samsung-galaxy-s23-into-a-gaming-pc/

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Repurposing old smartphones for more general purpose computing isn’t a new thing, but the project by [LastComputer] ups the ante by going from a Samsung Galaxy S23 that looks like it got run …

Keep That Old Radio Alive With An ESP32 | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/07/keep-that-old-radio-alive-with-an-esp32/

radio
esp32

As the legacy AM broadcast bands fade away, what happens to the millions of devices built to receive them? Many of them will go into e-waste, but with a century of radios to choose from, some of th…

Build Your Own Pepper’s Ghost Monster Eye for Halloween - Hackster.iohttps://www.hackster.io/news/build-your-own-pepper-s-ghost-monster-eye-for-halloween-130c3f942b35

eye

Designed by the Ruiz Brothers and Liz Clark, the Pepper’s Ghost Monster Eye is a perfect decoration for this Halloween.

Electronic Busy Board Is Fun For Kids And Hackers | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/electronic-busy-board-is-fun-for-kids-and-hackers/

While you may not be familiar with the term “busy board”, you’ve almost certainly seen one. It’s the sort of toy with a bunch of buttons, switches, and of course LEDs, that …

The Game Boy Test Lab Provides A Cartridge-Sized Diagnostic Lab | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/10/02/the-game-boy-test-lab-provides-a-cartridge-sized-diagnostic-lab/

gameboy
rom

Most of the time when you see a repair video of a Game Boy it’ll be demonstrated with a cartridge inserted and booting up into the game, but does this actually mean that the system is truely …

FPGA For All — CERN Releases “colibri” VHDL Library | Hackadayhttps://hackaday.com/2026/09/24/fpga-for-all-cern-releases-colibri-vhdl-library/

fpga
vhdl

Since you’re reading Hackaday, we’re pretty sure CERN needs no introduction, so we’ll get right to it– they’re giving back again, this time with a VHDL library called …